老美看美国：中国可以登月，美国无力修桥

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今天上午我看了一则关于中国五年计划登月的新闻。无疑他们会心想事成。中国还计划建立空间站和空间实验室以收集月球上的样品进而建立空中运载机。

中国雄心勃勃的计划和目标令笔者—一个美国公民钦佩与悲哀交加。中国正在商务，科学贸易和国际事务方面积极走在前头。他们过去20年的进步是显而易见的。他们已经成为世界上第二大的经济体。已经建设了“蓝色水域”的海军和潜艇，送人进入太空，并拥有地球上任何一个国家相比最大的外汇储备。

对于过去五百年来由欧洲和美国为主的竞争世界来说，上述可谓成就显著。因此，当我们钦佩中国雄心勃勃的太空计划时，我们不得不正视一个问题：为何中国正在缩短和美国之间在商业和科学方面的差距，

自从邓小平三十年前开启中国的大门以后，他解放了一群勤劳的人们，他们有动力在向着未来奔跑的道路上从落后赶上世界的步伐。现在中国是向未来奔跑，而美国和欧洲却停滞不前了。

这是为什么？

这个为什么的问题答案很简单。中国的政府体制在决策时比美国和欧洲更有效率。本文的题目“中国即将登月，美国无能修桥！”可谓千真万确。西方的政府体制，特别是美国，已经在倒退。权利政治本应该是一个国家维持其经济和技术领先地位的健康指标，而现在已经成为是奖励品。在美国，遏制反对党的权利，尤其是总统，使他们和他们的政策失败，似乎更顺理成章，那样的话，下一轮竞选，你就可以重新掌权，夺回总统宝座。这正是美国目前的处境。

美国的公路桥梁等基础设施亟需修缮和升级。国会完全可以批准这成千上万项目的经费，把成千上万的人送回去工作。这本是很合理的事，对吗？中国政府积极参最新五年计划里商业的成功，已经创造工作。然而，在美国，共和党把持国会甚至不会对那些修缮基础设施，把人们送回去工作的计划投上一票。因为那样的话，对经济有帮助，会让总统好看，并给总统下一届选举时有更大的胜算。因此，政治和国会的无能妥协伤害着整个国家。

美国政府—国会--的分裂越来越甚，如果茶党的极端主义官员当选的话。我敢说，二战时期如果有茶党当权，欧洲将会落入纳粹德国的魔掌，日本将统治中国，韩国已经整个亚太地区，美国则永远不可能把人送上月球，我们也会变成被世界鄙弃的孤立之国，而不是因为我们的胜利而令人敬仰。

美国一直成功是因为我们的国家大部分的历史我们团结一心，共同前进，从而粉碎了纳粹德国，重建了欧洲，打败了日本，创造了那里的民主。那里的人民继承了他们的传统和习惯，甚至他们的皇帝。我们给了他们没有意料到的尊重。中国如我们所见的，受益于我们国家的武力和团结，战胜了邪恶和压迫。

但是，现在，我们竟然没法在我们自己的国家就一座桥梁的修建达成协议。

中国就要登月。而美国正沿着颠簸的道路驶向未来。

（原文）

CHINA GOING TO THE MOON

AND USA CAN’T FIX A BRIDGE

By Tadie ( December 31th, 2011)

I read in the news this morning about China’s new 5 year plan to go to the moon. No doubt they will succeed in getting there. The Chinese also plan to set up several space stations and laboratories as well as collect more samples from the moon and create space freighters.

The ambitious program and goal the Chinese have set forth is both admirable and sad for this writer – a US citizen. The Chinese are motivated to get ahead in business, science, trade and international affairs and their progress these past 20 years is evident. They have become the second largest economy in the world, have developed a “blue water” navy and submarines, sent men into space and hold the largest foreign reserves of any country on earth.

All of he above are notable achievements in a competitive world which had been dominated by Europe and the USA the past 500 years. So, while China’s ambitious space programs is admirable it also begs the question of why the Chinese are closing the business and technology gap between itself and the USA.

Since Deng Xio Peng began the opening up of China over 30 years ago he set free an industrious people who were motivated to catch up to a world that had left China behind while they ran into the future. Now China is sprinting into the future and the USA and Europe are stagnating.

Why?

The why question can be answered fairly simply. China’s system of government is much more efficient at decision making than the USA or Europe. The title of this article, “China going to the Moon AND the USA can’t fix a bridge”, is very true. The Wests system of government, especially the USA, gone backwards where the politics of power has become the prize rather than the health of a nation maintaining its economic and technology superiority.  It makes more sense in the USA to hinder the opposition party in power, especially the President, so that they and their policies fail – so that in the next election you hope to regain power and the Presidency. This is exactly the situation in the USA right now.

The US infrastructure of roads and bridges is in need of repairs and upgrades. Congress could approve funding for thousands of projects and put thousands, perhaps millions, of people back to work. Makes sense to do that, right ? China’s government is very involved in the success of their commercial enterprises and the needs for job creation in their current 5 year plan. But, in the USA the Republican held Congress will not even bring to a vote the plans to fix our infracstructure and put people to work because that would help the economy and make the President look good, and increase he chance that the President would win a second  term in office. So, politics and inability to compromise in Congress hurts the entire country.

The current divide  in the US government – Congress – is only getting worse as extremist officials of the Tea Party are elected. I dare to say that if there was a Tea Party during World War II that Europe would have fallen to Nazi Germany, Japan would have controlled China and the Korea’s and the entire region,the USA would never have sent men to the moon and we would have become an isolated country that the world despised rather than looked at in admiration of our successes.

The USA has been successful because for the most part of our history we have gotten along together and came together in unity to move forward as a nation, that crushed Nazi Germany and rebuilt Europe, that defeated the Japanese and created a democracy there and the people there maintained their heritage and traditions and even their Emporer. We showed respect to them they didn’t expect. China benefited from our  use of force and our unity as nation to defeat evil  and oppression where we saw it.

But, now, we can’t even get agreement to fix a bridge or a road in our own country.

China’s going to the moon. The USA is driving on bumpy roads